Meteorite from Beyond the Heavens

Winter arrived, and the sky darkened early; by four in the afternoon, it was no longer suitable to continue the journey.

Several people huddled behind a giant boulder to shelter from the wind, Zhang Yang curled into a ball wrapped in that tiger-skin blanket, his left hand clutching a spare large drum magazine.

"Click, click."

Xie Yue and Yan sat to the side, watching Zhang Yang's movements with great interest.

One could see a faint ripple of soul power erupting from Zhang Yang's right hand, and a metal component, as thick and long as a finger, appeared in his palm.

Then, accompanied by the "click, click" sound of metal colliding, those metal parts were stuffed by Zhang Yang into the black container in his hand.

Zhang Yang was reloading.

After obtaining his first soul ring and unlocking the magazine accessory, Zhang Yang could purchase infinite drum magazine accessories from the shop.

With the large drum magazine, Zhang Yang's firepower intensity had effectively jumped up several grades.

Furthermore, within the system's warehouse, Zhang Yang had unlocked the true purpose of the large drum magazine.

When Zhang Yang selected the drum magazine in the warehouse, the system would prompt him to ask if he wished to spend soul power to fill it.

This option only had one choice: full. As long as Zhang Yang selected [Yes], the system would automatically consume 50 points of his soul power and fill the drum magazine.

Then, when Zhang Yang entered the map, he would find that his soul power bar had decreased by 50 points accordingly.

Therefore, over the past two years, Zhang Yang's process for entering maps had changed slightly.

Zhang Yang would first place several large drum magazine accessories in his backpack, then spend soul power to fill them with bullets, consuming most of his soul power before even entering the map.

Once he landed in the map, Zhang Yang would first gulp down a blue potion to recover a portion of his soul power, then pop a Painkiller, and inject the Power of Nine Dragons to buff his status.

After this series of preparations was completed, Zhang Yang would inject one more stimulant to accelerate soul power recovery, boosting his regeneration speed.

This entire process took less than 20 seconds.

But what Zhang Yang's enemies would face was a man with full soul power, the Power of Nine Dragons status active, the Painkiller effect still lingering, the drum magazine filled, and four extra sets of spare large drum magazines for Lord M14 in his backpack.

Fat Reduction Department Poet.

Likewise, this drum magazine could naturally be brought into the real world to be used.

However, regardless of whether the drum magazine was already filled with bullets, when Zhang Yang manifested it into the real world, the drum magazine would be empty.

Zhang Yang had to consume soul power to manifest the bullets, then manually load them one by one.

It was indeed very troublesome, but the sense of ritual was maximized, and it was much more convenient during combat.

With the bullets filling the drum magazine, Zhang Yang reattached it to the M14 before retracting the M14 back into his body.

With that, he was considered ready. When it came time to fight, he just needed to manifest it and pull the trigger.

Seeing Zhang Yang put away his martial soul, Yan curled his lip and turned his head away nonchalantly, while Xie Yue looked like a man watching an excavator finish its work and get loaded onto a flatbed truck, appearing as if he hadn't seen enough.

After a moment of hesitation, Xie Yue tried to strike up a conversation with Zhang Yang: "Zhang Yang, your martial soul... is truly peculiar."

"Is it? Thank you." Zhang Yang chuckled: "Your martial soul is also very special, Moon Blade; it's not easy to master the technique for a weapon with that kind of design."

Xie Yue nodded, his eyes filled with lingering fear from those days of arduous training: "Yes, it is indeed not easy."

Listening to Zhang Yang and Xie Yue making awkward small talk, Yan curled his lip in disdain, while Hu Liena, up in the tree, wore a faint look of heartache on her face.

Ever since her brother awakened the Moon Blade martial soul, in order to use it with ease as quickly as possible, Xie Yue had practiced through the bitter cold of winter and the sweltering heat of summer, working diligently without pause.

Not only that, due to the peculiar design of the Moon Blade, it was extremely easy to injure oneself while wielding it; despite having healing-type soul masters to back him up, the pain was real and tangible.

Just then, a slight commotion approached from afar, quickly alerting the group.

"Hm? This is... a soul beast is approaching, Nana!" Xie Yue stood up with a start, his gaze fixed in the direction the sound came from.

"I can't see it, it's still further away."

Xie Yue frowned: "We can't just wait here, get up the tree first."

The vast majority of soul beast battles occurred on the ground; climbing a tree could prevent the shockwaves of a soul beast's battle from hitting them immediately.

Furthermore, many soul beasts would not notice what was in the trees at first, and the physiological structure of many soul beasts made it impossible for them to look up at all.

Of course, climbing a tree also carried its own risks.

"Hiss~"

A century-level snake-type soul beast flicked its tongue, coldly staring at the human who had suddenly invaded its territory.

"Swish!"

The Moon Blade in Xie Yue's hand swung out, and the snake-type soul beast was sliced directly into two pieces; the snake head fell to the ground, its muscles still twitching incessantly.

Without using any soul skills, relying solely on the power of his martial soul and the reinforcement of his soul power, he could instantly kill a century-level snake-type soul beast.

Xie Yue was worthy of being the captain of this squad.

An average Soul Elder could not be as powerful as he was.

Soon, following a surge of yellow light, a thick tree in the distance was snapped in half under a massive energy impact.

"Bang!"

Like a discarded rag doll, an ape-type soul beast with a body size of 4 meters, an arm span of over 7 meters, and muddy fur was slammed fiercely onto the ground, rolling a long distance away.

Immediately following this, a massive, dark-gray bear with loose skin and numerous wounds and burn marks across its body charged forward.

The bear was gargantuan, yet its speed was immense; the thunderous sound of its charge made the very earth tremble in its wake.

"Long-Armed Giant Ape, Rock Mountain Lord," Hu Liena identified them quickly. "Judging by their size, both are thousand-year-level spirit beasts. The Long-Armed Giant Ape is a thousand years old, and the Rock Mountain Lord is around 1,500 years."

"The Rock Mountain Lord is an earth-attribute spirit beast, possessing infinite strength and devastating spirit skills. If one were to absorb its spirit ring, they would undoubtedly gain a powerful spirit skill."

Zhang Yang heard this, looked at Xie Yue, then at Hu Liena, and finally at Yan, saying helplessly, "It is a pity that this Rock Mountain Lord does not match the martial spirits of the four of us."

Xie Yue nodded. "I see the Rock Mountain Lord's skin is loose; it likely woke up from hibernation due to hunger, left its den to find food, and then clashed with the Long-Armed Giant Ape."

"Perhaps the Rock Mountain Lord intends to eat this giant ape," Zhang Yang proposed a theory.

"That is possible. The giant ape has already been defeated, and its death is only a matter of time. Whether the Rock Mountain Lord wants to eat this ape, the answer will be revealed soon."

While they were speaking, the spirit power within the Rock Mountain Lord surged violently. It stood up on its hind legs, and a massive amount of earth-attribute spirit power gathered in its front claws, turning its giant paws a deep, earthy yellow.

"ROAR!!!"

The severely wounded Long-Armed Giant Ape attempted one final struggle, channeling its spirit power into its three-meter-long arms to strike at the Rock Mountain Lord's exposed abdomen.

The abdomen is the weak point of most living creatures, where soft fur hides the most vulnerable internal organs.

This strike was a desperate move to force the enemy to defend.

The group in the trees held their breath, watching intently as they waited for the final act.

But in the distance, unnoticed by everyone, a two-meter-wide, glowing red lava boulder came hurtling from the direction the two beasts had arrived from, trailing a beautiful streak of light as it flew toward them at incredible speed.

Rip.

The fur on the Rock Mountain Lord's soft abdomen was sliced open, leaving a long wound as blood sprayed out.

But that was all.

The reason the Rock Mountain Lord had "Rock" in its name was not only because it was an earth-attribute spirit beast, but also because it possessed incredibly hard bones.

BOOM!

Its sturdy ribs withstood the piercing attack of the giant ape's arms, and the Rock Mountain Lord brought its heavy, powerful paws crashing down. The massive impact of spirit power was like a meteor striking the earth, smashing a large crater directly into the ground.

As for the giant ape's head, which had been the target of the bear paws, its skull shattered, splattering red and white matter everywhere.

"ROAR!!!"

Having killed the Long-Armed Giant Ape, the Rock Mountain Lord looked up at the sky and let out a roar of victory.

But at that very moment, the lava boulder flying from the distance slammed into the Rock Mountain Lord with lightning speed, cutting its victory declaration short.

The lava boulder shattered upon impact, spraying molten magma everywhere and coating the Rock Mountain Lord. The entire battlefield was instantly filled with a pungent smell of sulfur.

The Rock Mountain Lord was sent flying by the immense force of the lava boulder, and it scrambled to its feet, frantically batting the magma off its body.

"ROAR!"

The Rock Mountain Lord raised its head and roared with its blood-stained maw wide open, the searing magma on its body only fueling its rage.

However, meeting its roar was yet another lava boulder arriving from the distance.

"There's an expert out there?"